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Finnegans Wake

by James Joyce

bookshelves: currently-reading, english, oneironautic, whatthehellisgoingon, public-domain, read-in-2011, read-in-2012, read-in-2013, read-in-2014, read-in-2015, read-in-2017, read-in-2018

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"I wonder how much of this book is hapax legomena? "Bothallchoractorschumminariundgansumuminarumdrumstrumtruminahumptadumpwaultopoofoolooderamaunsturnup!" (sic)" — Jan 09, 2018 09:25PM

Jan 09, 2018 09:26PM

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Taken Care Of: The Autobiography Of Edith Sitwell

by Edith Sitwell

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The Devils of Loudun

by Aldous Huxley

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"Nobody likes to think of himself as immoral and heretical; but at the same time nobody likes to renounce a course of action dictated by powerful impulses, especially when these impulses are recognized as being in their nature good, as tending toward a higher and more abundant life. Hence all the curious literature of rationalization and justification[...]" — Jan 16, 2021 04:45PM

Jan 16, 2021 04:50PM

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Taro’s Quotes

“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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“How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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“She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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“He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters. ”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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